Bøger af Tracy Lawson

Based on a true story of the American Revolution.After supper one winter night in 1825, Anna and Benjamin Stone's grandchildren gathered around their rocking chairs.Hannah asked, "Grandma, will you tell us a story from when you and Grandpa were young?"Benjamin chuckled as he folded his newspaper. "Yes, Anna, tell them about the time you saved General Washington's job and made sure we won the American Revolution!"Hannah's eyes got as big as saucers. "Grandma, did you meet George Washington? How did you save his job? Did we really almost lose the Revolution?"Anna's eyes twinkled in the firelight. "It's been nearly fifty years since the first days of the Revolution, and I remember everything as though it was just yesterday."

On a spring afternoon in 1834, seven-year-old Annie Perkins and her mama visit Annie's great-grandmother Sarah Fulton for a tea party.Annie learns an exciting story about the most important tea party ever held in Boston, the beginning of the rebellion that created a new nation, and a long-held family secret.Revolutionary Sarah is based on events in the life of Sarah Bradlee Fulton, a patriot of the American Revolution.

It's a good thing Tommy and Careen can't see what their futures hold.Careen Catecher survived a terrorist's bomb at the age of nine. Her father died in the blast, and her relationship with her irresponsible mother deteriorated during her teen years. A full scholarship to a prestigious university far from her beleaguered home quadrant seems like a dream come true. Unfortunately for her, she's perceived as a charity case, despite grades and test scores that prove she's the academic equal of the best students there. Fitting in with her peers is necessary if she's going to leave the past behind and claim the stable future she craves, but she's only been at school for a few weeks when a cryptic message from an unlikely friend raises questions that may put her in danger all over again.Tommy Bailey enjoyed a worry-free childhood, the attention of two doting parents, and the admiration that comes from being a star athlete in high school, but everything changed in the blink of an eye the summer after graduation, when his parents were killed in a car accident. Tommy suffered injuries that left him wondering if he'd be able to walk without a limp. His friends left for university without him. Alone for the first time, he wallowed in self-pity, and allowed survivor's guilt to overwhelm him.Tommy doesn't remember much about the night of the accident, and he has no way of knowing that the consequences of his father's past deeds-as well as his most formidable enemy-are about to catch up with him. Find out what caused the bitter feud between Tommy's dad and his nemesis Lowell Stratford, and how it sets the course for Tommy's future.Read these two novella-length prequels to the award-winning Resistance Series, "a promising new YA series about a totalitarian America."

To deny freedom is to deny the human spirit.Fugitive Resistance fighter Tommy Bailey has come out of hiding to help rescue Careen Catecher from the clutches of the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense, where she's being held and interrogated for information about the rebel group. The OCSD is poised to launch the Cerberean Link, a security device that will put all minors under constant surveillance under the guise of protecting them.Convinced that activating the Link will result in irreversible and total control of the population, the Resistance puts its own plan in motion to sabotage the Link and oust the OCSD's wolfish director. Just when everything seems leveraged in their favor, treachery, lies, and long-held secrets threaten to derail it all.

A spark can ignite a revolution.Tommy and Careen have been vilified in the media for the Resistance's failed attempt to take down the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense. Both teens struggle to survive the circumstances that thrust them into the national spotlight, and this time, they don't have each other to lean on. They're on opposite sides.Even though both the OCSD and the Resistance believe Careen's convincing defection, Tommy refuses to believe her loyalties have shifted. How can she be in favor of the OCSD's latest plan to monitor all minors with the Cerberean Link, a device that will track their every move?

Knowledge comes with a price.Tommy and Careen's eyes are opened to the Office of Civilian Safety and Defense's abuses of power. After accidentally discovering that the miracle antidote that's supposed to protect them is actually meant to control them, they take their knowledge public and join the fight to undermine the OCSD's next bid for total control of the population.Being a part of the Resistance brings with it a whole new set of challenges. Tommy and Careen's differing viewpoints threaten to drive a wedge between them, and their budding relationship is tested. Not everyone working for change proves trustworthy, and plans to spark a revolution go awry with consequences far beyond anything they bargained for.